A few of my notes in answer to, and +1 to things raised in the responses:
If the cloud server goes down, you have no ability to fix it. You just
have to wait.
Which is just the same as an onsite server. Amazon/etc. have teams of
people dedicated to just keeping the servers running and to
Try Confluence https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence from
Atlassian for a wiki. It fits the bill of being an easy to use and being a
wiki ;-)
If I didn't mention the Atlassian toolset, from Confluence to Jira, and
their many add-ons as a very robust alternative to Sharepoint, then I
We employ several cloud services as a backup systems and redundancy measures.
We do not, and will not, employ cloud services as a primary repository of our
data, for several reasons which I will briefly discuss here.
1. Technical: Bandwidth in the US is still very expensive. To get real
Hi,
Some of you might be interested in the handbook Linked Data for Libraries,
Archives and Museums. How to clean, link and publish your metadata which was
published with Facet/ALA-Neal Schuman last week. This handbook has been written
specifically for people with a humanities background. You
As a contemporary art institution, we often display and give a stage for
discussion to artists and performers who are marked as dissidents and
troublemakers. It will be counter to our mission if some critical instance of
our operation goes dark because of some political pressure.
Hear, hear.
Dear MCN Colleagues,
We need your help with really important Kickstarter project. Museum-Ed has
launched a project to digitize all 12 years of The Docent Educator, a
publication designed for museum docents and the educators who work with them,
with articles written by leaders in our field.
